cowpie2

Don't worry, you'll have a stash before you know it. I started last summer with a firm no-stash policy and only one project at a time. In the last year, I went from only one project at a time, no extra fabric to where did all this come from. I have one quilt I am hand quilting, one row robin to work, a quilt to bind that my mom made, one quilt ready to sandwich, a bin full of 30's fabrics that I buy in 1 yard pieces to stock up for a future GFG and two other bins full of fabric I have found at unbelievable low prices so started purchasing. I like scrappy quilts so buying FQs or Charms on sale has been a great stash builder.

So much for one project at a time and no stash.

Barb44

LOL Yep, that's the way it goes. I just started quilting again this winter to make 1 quilt, and have a bedroom so full of fabric now that I can't find anything. I have no place to organize. And I have a list of a dozen projects to do. Some day I will get it together, if I can stay off this board long enough. LOL

luvspaper

I started with fat quarters.....now I tend to buy a minimum of a whole yard. But I like quilts with a lot of different fabrics (at least 6-8)....so 1 yard works. If you like quilts with a fewer amount of fabrics, I would get 2-4 yards.

I try to only buy for my stash when fabrics are deeply discounted/on sale. I tend to gravitate to certain designs/colors so that helps!

I have bought 3-5 yards of whites/neutrals and black when I have found them on sale.

I just can't afford to buy 4-8 yards at a time....unless it is something I am buying specifically for batting.

But my stash is small compared to some and too large for others.

deranged_damsel

the remnant bin! or the clearance table!
are the ONLY places I buy fabric I dont have an imediate plan for.
:D happy shopping :D

MadQuilter

And THAT, my dear, is how a stash starts. Add to it the occasional fat quarter and the solids one absolutely NEEDS. Then it is really impossible (for me) to buy "just enough" fabric for the latest projects......and THAT is how the stash grows.

AliKat

I used to buy only what I needed for each project with just a tad extra for cutting distractions that might happen.

Then I bough material to go with the leftover fabric for more projects. Now since I don't stick to just one color palette you can imagine what I had next.

Gads, it hasn't taken long til it all accumulated.

Then friends wanted to downsize so we traded stash. Somehow my stash grew again.

Then I won fabric at various events/classes/etc.

I don't think anyone has to go looking to build a stash ... unless you are an art quilter.

ali

vintagemotif

I told myself that I wouldn't have a large stash (and I don't compared to many others on this board), but then my mom cleared out her stash of cottons and sent them all to me.

I buy what I like, always look in the remnant bin, and try to buy on sale so that I can purchase a 1/2 yd. more than I need.

Rose L

Stash comes in lots of forms. Leftovers from other projects, sales and auctions, pass alongs from others, purchases of fabrics we love, and shop hops ;) If you quilt...it will happen there is no way around it!

Rose L

Umm, buy fabric?!! LOL!

texpat45

Two fat quarters will metamorphose into a stash. Trust me.